Have your say and help us turning EOSC and FAIR Data into reality

The EOSC Stakeholders Open Consultation was launched on 11 June by the High Level Expert Group together with the EOSCpilot Project during the 2nd EOSC Summit in Brussels.


The Consultation Platform allows stakeholders as any other person involved in the EOSC to rank, vote and discuss the three sets of Recommendations (implementation, engagement & steering recommendations) that the EOSC High Level Expert Group presented during the EOSC Summit and which will guide the practical development of the EOSC.


You can truly Influence the debate on how the EOSC actors (which include both users and service providers) can participate in the EOSC by joining discussions on hot topics for European researchers and infrastructures and actively contribute to the shaping of the EOSC Rules of Participation.


Consultation will be open until 5 August 2018, upon which, the results of the consultation will be analysed and will feed into the initial Rules of Participation due to be released on 23 November, this year. The final Rules of Participation is slated to be released in the 3rd quarter of 2019.


We look forward to seeing your comments and insights very soon!

Launching the Open Consultation on the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Rules of Participation and FAIR Data Action Plan clearly signalled the vision of the European Commission for the EOSC to be as less Brussels-centric as possible. However, it also brought about a lot of questions.

• What will happen after the consultation is closed?
• Who decides what goes in the Rules of Participation in the end?
• Where can I find a compilation or analysis of the results of the consultation after it ends?

The FAIR Data Action Plan puts forward 34 recommendations in GitHub, each with a series of actions assigned to multiple stakeholder groups.


The stakeholder groups are: research communities, data services, data stewards, standards bodies, global coordination fora, policy makers, research funders, institutions and publishers.


In addition, each recommendation is associated with the main topic covered (typically the report chapter in which it emerged): policy, culture, technology, skills, metrics or costs. Some are closely aligned to two topics, e.g. culture and technology.


Consultation will be open until 5 August 2018, upon which, the results of the consultation will be analysed, and will feed into the FAIR Data Action Plan due to be released in the 4th quarter of this year.